Bam! Pow! Footnote!

When professors collaborate on a law-review article, they're more likely to be preoccupied with footnotes and headings than whether an illustration reveals too much skin.

But the authors who contributed to a comic-book-style essay in the current issue of the Journal of Legal Education are cheerfully breaking the mold they say legal scholarship has been stuffed into for the past 150 years.

"We live a world of digitization and instant communication," says James M. Cooper, a

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